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“Beauty is our guide”: An Interview with Dr. Glenn Arbery

November 24, 2022 Jesse Russell 3

Born in South Carolina, reared in Georgia, Glenn C. Arbery grew up as a Southerner and a Protestant. His reading of Flannery O’Connor as a freshman at the University of Georgia began his journey toward […]

The Dispatch

The Prophetic Witness of St. John Paul II

October 21, 2022 Carl E. Olson 7

Editor’s note: This essay originally appeared on CWR on April 1, 2015, and is reposted here, in slightly different form, to mark St. Pope John Paul II’s feast day, celebrated on October 22nd. ————— “We, […]

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Finding faith after the big sleep: A review of Infinite Regress: A Novel

July 22, 2022 Jesse Russell 3

For the past twenty years, the Catholic Church in America has been battered by scandal and division. The John Paul II generation appears to have split itself into three camps. The first is a traditionalist […]

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Extra, extra! News and tidings for April 13, 2022

April 13, 2022 CWR Staff 4

An unexpected controversy: If the book “Ask Your Husband” were pulled from publication, you might have thought it would be after the publisher faced pushback from scholars taking issue with its provocative reading of the […]

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Reading Flannery O’Connor for the first time

August 3, 2021 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 1

Reading Flannery O’Connor requires a stout heart and a strong stomach. In her short life before she died of terminal lupus, she wrote two novels and roughly two dozen short stories that continue to shock […]

The Dispatch

A cautious and skillful map through the world of late modern fiction

July 11, 2021 Jesse Russell 10

In his essay, “A Secret Vice,” originally a 1931 lecture at Pembroke College, Oxford, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote of a “secret hierarchy” of individuals who have the curious hobby of constructing their own languages. Perhaps the […]

The Dispatch

A classic work on the commonsense of noncontradiction and finality

November 30, 2020 Casey Chalk 8

I recently started looking into nihilism… but then I realised it was pointless. For some, that joke is enough to expose the absurdity and illogic of a philosophy that holds that there is no meaning […]

Analysis

Peacocking, Loyola, and Flannery O’Connor

August 5, 2020 Marc D. Guerra, Ph.D. 17

“That a good many Christians today kneel before the world,” Jacques Maritain observed in The Peasant of the Garonne, “is a fact perfectly clear.” Taking aim at the “new philosophy” he detected weaving its way […]

Features

“The Office” and…Flannery O’Connor?

July 6, 2019 Lauren Enk Mann 6

This week The Office, the Steve-Carrell-led TV satire, made headlines to the tune of fan outrage when it was announced that Netflix lost its long-held rights to the show when the streaming service was outbid […]

Essay

Rules for Christian Intellectuals, Part III

June 30, 2019 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 9

The world is falling apart. Gunmen kill civilians in office buildings and schools; babies die in wars and in abortion clinics. People suffer poverty, sexual violence, hunger. Our planet is rife with racism and tyranny […]

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